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Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Synema  Simon, 1864   10 species

Synema diana (Audouin, 1826)

Description
Distribution
  Presence
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Global distribution (WSC 2026): Tunisia to Saudi Arabia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Tanzania, South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini
Figures
Distribution List
Egypt   (El-Hennawy, 2017a) ||| Tunisia   (Bosmans, 2003; Kmira et al., 2025) |||
References

Bosmans R (2003) A checklist of the spiders of Tunisia, with description of a new species of Palliduphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Kaupia - Darmstädter Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte 12: 89-109 pdf

Dippenaar-Schoeman A S (1989) An annotated check list of crab spiders (Araneae: Thomisidae) of Saudi Arabia. Fauna Saudi Arabia 10: 20-30 pdf

El-Hennawy H K (2017a) A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15: 167-183 pdf

Kmira G, Nasri-Ammar, Petillon J, Bosmans R (2025) Catalog of the spiders of Tunisia (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5641: 1-95 pdf

Lessert R de (1919) Araignées du Kilimandjaro et du Mérou (suite). 3. Thomisidae. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 27: 99-234 pdf

Levy G (1985) Araneae: Thomisidae. In Fauna Palaestina, Arachnida II. Israel Academy of Sciences and Jerusalem, 115 pp. pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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